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Jamie Dimon, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, and more take the stage September 19–20
 

The full agenda for The Atlantic Festival is available now! The year 2024 is a consequential one for our nation, and this year’s festival will meet the moment

head-on. 

Join us for illuminating interviews with great minds, moderated by The Atlantic’s very own award-winning journalists. Agenda highlights include:

On the Ideas Stage: Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg will interview Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, on the future of domestic and global economies. 

 

RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of the electric-vehicle manufacturer Rivian, joins the brand-new Innovation Stage with Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson to discuss clean-energy technologies and the benefits of embracing them.

Newly confirmed: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will join the Ideas Stage with Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith to discuss her new book, Lovely One: A Memoir.

 

Experience renowned actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith’s special one-person performance of This Ghost of Slavery, the first play The Atlantic has published in nearly a century. Following the performance, Deavere Smith will be joined by Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the creative process and extensive research that brought this history to life.

 

Friday evening after Happy Hour: Join us for an exclusive screening of Lee, which examines the life and work of the renowned American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller, played by Academy Award–winner Kate Winslet, and a conversation with the director Ellen Kuras and the film's cast, led by Atlantic staff writer Shirley Li. 

CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper will join C. J. Rice for an in-depth conversation with Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, about the unlikely ways their lives intertwined, leading to an Atlantic cover story that gripped readers and set the course for Rice’s exoneration.

 

Atlantic contributing  writer Jemele Hill will interview American Library Association president Cindy Hohl and Liberation Station Bookstore owner Victoria Scott-Miller on book banning. 

Additional festival speakers include Speaker Emerita of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi; Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania; director and head of product for Responsible AI, Google, Tulsee Doshi; New York University Stern School of Business social psychologist Jonathan Haidt; founder and CEO of Loyal, Celine Halioua; administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Michael Regan; and economic historian and author Dror Poleg. And even more of your favorite Atlantic journalists will moderate, including senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II, staff writers Elaina Plott Calabro and Jerusalem Demsas, and many more.

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